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"Scotland Bill: 'Calman doesn't go far enough. Scotland must have more powers'"
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"Tory accused of racism after telling fellow Scot: Get back to jockland"
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England's Shame: Archbishop Cranmer
"But it is quite another to desecrate the Cenotaph; the nation’s memorial to The Glorious Dead; to those who died in order that these students might be free to speak their mind, to assemble with their colleagues and protest for their cause.By tearing down the Union Flag and senselessly swinging like apes from this monument to the sacred memory of the sacrifice of millions, the primitive protestors have forfeited their right to be heard in civil society."
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"Saving a language is one thing, but I'm saddened by Scotland going Gaelic": Ian Jack
"Anyone who lives in a big British city got used long ago to the idea of English as one local language among many: the opening hours of the radiotherapy unit posted in Punjabi, Turkish, Somali and Bengali, the mobile callers on the bus who speak to fellow migrants from Tirana, Vilnius, Lagos and Kraków, or to their families who still live there. But the Welsh and Gaelic phrases on the passport are surprising. They don't answer to this present Britain. They exist in a more historical landscape, to redress old rural grievances rather than to express new metropolitan demands."
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Seen Elsewhere 12/12/2010
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